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What’s good, what’s bad, and what’s in between in literature this year? Here we review the latest titles.
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Looking for a new book? Here are 10 new titles to try
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases.
- Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
Drifters, vagrants and loners: a lyrical journey through Australia’s interior
The world through which an unnamed narrator journeys, accompanied by various companions, is one you can hear and smell.
- Declan Fry
This yarn about the links between wool and war might surprise you
Australia’s large-scale sheep pastoralism and the northern hemisphere’s industrialisation of woollen textiles allowed the huge armies of the 20th century to exist, a new history argues.
- Ken Haley
These personal portraits of extinct species may well make you cry
Feelings of grief are unavoidable when reading about the species that have disappeared due to human encroachment.
- Simon Caterson
Searching for something to read? Here are 10 new books
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases
- Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll
This biography does fullest justice to the maddest stories imaginable
Frances Wilson explores of the early life and work of the late Scottish novelist and poet Muriel Spark.
- Peter Craven
Princess Diana’s enduring legacy, from conspiracy theories to drag culture
A new “cultural autopsy” examines the late royal as a global cultural obsession.
- Nathan Smith
What drives the human instinct to create art?
Critic Quentin Sprague attempts to answer questions about art, obsession and creativity through spending time with Australian artists.
- Gabriella Coslovich
A darkly funny look at artists – their egos, failures and bad behaviour
Murray Middleton’s short stories deals with filmmakers, musicians, actors, playwrights, photographers and writers in varying states of creative frustration.
- Jack Cameron Stanton